The prejudice which now excludes the negro will yield only to established facts, but will not, from the nature of the case, create these facts. When educated negroes in all the public callings of life shall have proved “that a man is a man for all that,” that what entitles him to respect and honor lies deeper than the color of his skin, and is not to be determined at all by its peculiar shade, so that separate schools will not be demanded for him, he will come in such numbers that those now established for him will be urgently needed for the accommodation of students, regardless of color. Thus are we led by our just and reasonable views to the conclusion that the schools for higher training of the negro, established by the A. M. A. and kindred societies, are demanded for a permanent work most vitally related to all that is dear to us as Christians and patriots, and that permanent and adequate endowments for them must be made if these interests are to be conserved. * * * * * GENERAL NOTES. AFRICA. —On Nov. 12th, Bishop Crowther, while at Sierra Leone, on his way back to the Niger, admitted three Africans to deacon’s orders. Gov. Havelock and other Europeans were present, and more than eighteen hundred native Christians. —The C.M.S. Committee has presented a memorial to Lord Granville on the question of slavery and the slave-trade in Egypt. Pressure is brought to bear upon the Government not to miss the present opportunity of using the influence and power of England to abolish slavery itself, and so put a stop to the slave-trade. —The River Gambia Trading Company has been incorporated in London with a capital of $750,000. —A new station has been founded among the Angoni by Dr. Laws and Mr. Koyi, of the Livingstonia Mission. —The gross weight of diamonds passed through the post-office of Kimberley, South Africa, in 1880, was 1,440 pounds, estimated at $16,839,485. —Captain Burton and Commander Cameron, on their return from the West African Gold Fields, reported that the wealth of the land was prodigious. “Gold dust is found by native women from the sands of the seashore. Gold spangles glitter after showers in the streets of Azim. Gold is yielded by the lumps of yellow swish that rivet the wattle walls of hut and hovel. Our washings range from half an ounce to four ounces per ton.” —In 1880, the number of Protestant communicants in Africa, according to Dr. Behm, was 122,470. The number composing the communities in the midst of which these were found was 506,966. Thirty-four religious societies were prosecuting the work represented in these communities. —Dr. Blyden, President of Liberia College, reports increasing prosperity among the immigrants who have gone from this country. The commercial interests of Liberia are indicated by the fact that one vessel, the bark Monrovia, brought 150,000 pounds of coffee to New York on a recent trip.